Parliamentary search - House of Lords Reform Bill [HL]

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

722 c1688-742

Session

2010-12

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

House of Lords Reform Bill (HL)
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Marquess of Lothian | 722 c1699-700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with a certain trepidation that I rise today to address your Lordships’ House for th...

Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield | 722 c1706-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure and an honour to join your Lordships’ House. It is a pleasure because of ...

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Lord Cobbold | 722 c1719-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join other noble Lords in welcoming this Bill which proposes a series of reform measures...

Viscount Falkland | 722 c1723-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a remarkable debate. In the 26 years that I admit to your Lordships that I h...

Lord Rennard | 722 c1695-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for my noble friend Lord Steel of Aikwood and perhaps a number of other noble Lords presen...

Lord Bilimoria | 722 c1700-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege and an honour to follow the maiden speech of the noble Marquess, L...

Lord Trefgarne | 722 c1704-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin my remarks with how much I welcome the maiden speech of my noble friend Lord Lothi...

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe | 722 c1703-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Steel of Aikwood, for the way in which he moved his Bill again...

Lord Trefgarne | 722 c1706 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my noble friend is saying. I am thinking—I confess that I need to apply more thoug...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 722 c1706 (Link to this contribution) The problem with what my noble friend proposes is that, if he reads the report of our noble friend L...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 722 c1709 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is not very often that I get the privilege of following a maiden speaker in your Lordsh...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 722 c1709-11 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that leads me neatly into expressing my complete support for the Bill again introduced so ...

Lord Grenfell | 722 c1712-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have heard two remarkable maiden speeches from Peers who will clearly be enormous asset...

Earl of Erroll | 722 c1714-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suppose that I should thank the noble Lord, Lord Steel, for the opportunity to put one’s...

Lord Higgins | 722 c1711-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner, not least because I think I agre...

Lord Wills | 722 c1720-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, salute the indefatigability of the noble Lord, Lord Steel, on bringing this Bill f...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 722 c1718-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, much of the debate implicitly circles around a remark made by the noble Lord, Lord Rennard...

Lord Taverne | 722 c1716-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have taken no part in previous debates about the future of this Chamber, but I have list...

Lord Stewartby | 722 c1727-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at this stage in the debate I do not want to go back over all the issues that have been di...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 722 c1725-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we must thank the noble Lord, Lord Steel of Aikwood, for refining his Bill into ever more ...

Baroness Boothroyd | 722 c1697-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Steel, on his tenacious efforts to reform this House. ...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 722 c1693-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, another year, another Steel Bill. We should all be grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Steel ...

Lord Howe of Aberavon | 722 c1691-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House has had the privilege of hearing my noble friend Lord Steel proposing, supportin...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 722 c1688-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. The rules of the House require me ...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 722 c1688 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, ha...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 722 c1688 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be read a second time.

Baroness Verma | 722 c1737-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord lets me make progress, he will see that I shall address the point that h...

Lord Trefgarne | 722 c1740 (Link to this contribution) I am not opposed to my noble friend’s Bill as a matter of principle, except for the passage on the r...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 722 c1739-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that everyone will agree that this has been a very interesting debate. In fact, I ...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 722 c1740-2 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the noble Lord for that clarification. The noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Alverth...

Earl of Erroll | 722 c1734 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may suggest that the important thing is that, when all Cross-Benchers vote in one directio...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 722 c1735 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is a significant point, although in the end the numbers count as well. The matter is ...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 722 c1732-4 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry. I am already overcome by the tension in winding up on the noble Lord’s Bill. I also ...

Baroness Verma | 722 c1736-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the first time that I have had the opportunity to respond to this debate on your L...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 722 c1737 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Baroness confirm that this Bill is not about an elected House, so the role that the p...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 722 c1732 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Steel, on his perseverance in bringing this Bill...

Lord Palmer | 722 c1732 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I wish to intervene in the gap, albeit that I had hoped to be...

Baroness Deech | 722 c1730-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I find myself in the unenviable position of being one of the last speakers to contribute t...

Lord Desai | 722 c1728-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, here we go again with the noble Lord, Lord Steel, and his Bill. I am reminded of the famou...

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